e-mail Electronic Mail

That file was electronic message, so suddenly in about 1971, we had e-mail. So an e-mail was pretty much the major use of the internet for the next 20 years.

那种文件就是电子消息，如此突然的，约在,1971年，我们有了电子邮件，电子邮件,基本上是此后20年互联网的主要运用形式。

You would think that since E-mail is electronic and electronic information is suppose to move at the speed of light, your E-mail message would arrive seconds after you send it.

你可能会这么想：既然电子邮件是“电子的”而且电子信息是以光速传播，那么电子邮件应该会在发出的几秒后到达目的地。

One approach towards reducing electronic junk, including spam in e-mail and on the Web, is to assign a small cost to the act of sending mail, or posting information on a Web site.

减少电子垃圾（包括电子邮件和 Web 上的垃圾信息）的一种方式是给发送邮件或在 Web 站点发布信息的行为加上一些成本。